In Night Journey, the classic story of Oedipus is stunningly reinvented. Not only does Graham upend our perspective of the tale by telling it through the eyes of the Queen, Jocasta, but she does this through a brilliant backwards chronology. The dance begins as Sophocles’ play ends; the curtain goes up on Jocasta who, having realized the horrific truth, is about to hang herself. We see the entire story in flashback: the return of Oedipus as a young man, their courtship and marriage. The dancing of the chorus reflects Jocasta’s anguish as her life passes before her eyes. Driven toward the truth by Tireseus, the blind seer, Jocasta participates in these memories, haunted with awareness of her inescapable fate – that she has married and born children with her own son.